HIKMICRO Stellar SH35 3.0 Thermal Scope

Time behind a thermal scope is usually limited by two things. How much detail the sensor gives you, and how tired your eye gets watching a small screen. The HIKMICRO Stellar SH35 3.0 Thermal Scope attacks both, with a sensitive detector and a much larger display than the entry-level scopes. It is built for hunters who spend serious hours in field and forest country and want the picture to hold up all night.

15 mK sensitivity when the ground has gone cold

The 384 x 288 detector at 12 µm is rated at less than 15 mK NETD. That number describes the smallest temperature difference the sensor can resolve, and a lower one is what separates a bedded animal from cooled ground, damp grass or a shaded gully late in the night. Paired with a 35 mm F1.0 lens the scope has a detection range of 1800 m, and a 50 Hz frame rate across the 8 µm to 14 µm waveband keeps movement smooth.

A 1.03 inch display you can actually read

The 1.03 inch OLED display runs 2560 x 2560, which is a substantially bigger and denser view than the small screens used further down the range. In the field it means faster target acquisition and less eye strain over a long session. Magnification runs 4.2x to 24.2x across a field of view of 7.5° x 5.7°, or 13.1 m x 10.0 m at 100 m, with a 6 mm exit pupil and -4D to 4D dioptre adjustment.

No shutter pause at the wrong second

Image Pro 2.0 processing works with the shutterless HSIS system, so there is no periodic freeze while the sensor recalibrates and no click to spook anything close in. Six palettes including Black Hot, White Hot, Fusion and Red Hot let you switch to whatever gives the cleanest separation in the conditions you are shooting.

Set up for long nights

Two internal rechargeable lithium batteries plus a replaceable external 18650 give 9 hours continuous running, topped up over Type-C at 5 V DC / 2 A with QC3.0. The scope measures 410 mm x 85 mm x 86.3 mm and weighs 800 g without the external battery, is IP67 rated and works from -30°C to 55°C. Snapshot, video and audio recording are on board.

Ideal for

• Serious deer and pig hunters working forest and field edges
• Property and station managers doing regular night pest control
• Professional pest controllers who need detail in poor conditions
• Shooters upgrading from an entry-level thermal for image quality